THE  BEST  HUNDRED  BOOKS 

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ON  CHINA 

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A  FINDING  LIST  OF  BOOKS  IN  ENGLISH 


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THE  BEST  HUNDRED  BOOKS 

ON  CHINA 

A  FINDING  LIST  OF  BOOKS  IN  ENGLISH 
SELECTED  AND  ANNOTATED 


BY 

FREDERICK  WELLS  WILLIAMS 

Assistant  Professor  of  Modern  Oriental  History 
Yale  University 

AND 

THE  REV.  FRANK  W.  PRICE 

Associate  Professor  of  Religious  Education 
Union  Theological  Seminary,  Nanking 


NEW  HAVEN,  CONNECTICUT:  YALE  UNIVERSITY  LIBRARY 

MDCCCCXXIV 


THE  BEST  HUNDRED  BOOKS  IN  ENGLISH 

ON  CHINA 


The  purpose  of  this  short  list  of  the  available  literature  on  China 
is  to  afford  students  and  others  interested  in  the  Far  East  a  con¬ 
venient  means  of  selecting  the  best  sources  of  information  on  all 
phases  of  the  subject.  While  all  of  the  books  named  are  not  in 
print  they  are  probably  still  to  be  had  through  booksellers  and,  for 
the  most  part,  in  public  libraries.  With  very  few  exceptions  none 
are  mentioned  that  are  too  costly  to  be  within  reach  of  a  library  or 
purchaser  in  need  of  a  fairly  complete  collection  on  China.  A  few 
titles  in  French  or  German  in  excess  of  the  hundred  supposed  to 
comprise  the  list  are  noted,  also  a  few  others  that  might  replace 
books  not  readily  obtainable,  so  that  the  heading  of  this  catalog 
may  be  justified  by  actual  selection.  The  bibliography  of  Chris¬ 
tian  missions  in  China  is  left  for  another  list. 


Yale  University  Library, 
October,  1923. 


F.  W.  Williams. 


THE  BEST  HUNDRED  BOOKS  ON  CHINA 

(IN  ENGLISH) 


BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Cordier,  Henri. 

Bibliotheca  sinica.  Dictionnaire  bibliographique  des  ouvrages 
relatifs  a  l’Empire  chinois  ...  2.  ed.,  rev.,  cor.  et  considerable- 
ment  augm.  .  .  .  Paris,  E.  Guilmoto,  1904-08.  4  v. 

Supplement  et  index,  1922-24.  Paris,  P.  Geuthner. 

Closely  classified  under  5  main  heads:  1.  La  Chine  proprement  dite. 
2.  Les  etrangers  en  Chine.  3.  Relation  des  etrangers  avec  les  Chinois. 
4.  Les  Chinois  chez  les  peuples  etrangers.  5.  Les  pays  tributaires  de 
la  Chine. 

Brief  and  useful  bibliographies  may  be  found  in  K.  S.  Latourette, 
The  development  of  China,  rev.  ed.,  Boston  and  New  York, 
1920 ;  W.  R.  Wheeler,  China  and  the  World-War,  New  York, 
1919;  and  E.  T.  Williams,  China  yesterday  and  to-day,  New 
York,  1923. 


GENERAL  WORKS 


Ball,  James  Dyer. 

Things  Chinese ;  or  Notes  connected  with  China  .  .  .  4th  ed., 
rev.  and  enl.  London,  Murray,  1904. 

Bashford,  James  Whitford. 

China;  an  interpretation  .  .  .  New  York,  Cincinnati,  Abingdon 
Press  [1919].  Illus. 

Rev.  and  enl.  ed. 

“Books  for  reference”  at  the  end  of  most  chapters.  Reviewed  in  Dial, 
61:  317;  Independent,  Sept.  25,  1916.  “No  other  book  will  help  the 
peoples  of  the  Western  Nations  to  understand  China  better  than  this 
remarkable  work.”  Best  book  in  a  single  volume  for  popular  use. 

China  year  book.  [v.  1],  1912  (annual  to  date).  London,  Rout- 
ledge;  New  York,  Dutton  [1912-date]. 

Couhng,  Samuel. 

The  encyclopaedia  sinica  .  .  .  Shanghai,  Kelly  &  Walsh,  1917. 

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Dingle,  Edwin  John,  editor. 

The  new  atlas  and  commercial  gazetteer  of  China,  a  work 
devoted  to  its  geography  and  resources  and  economic  and  com¬ 
mercial  development.  .  .  .  Shanghai,  North-China  Daily  News 
and  Herald  [1917].  Ulus.,  maps,  folio. 

“Biggest  and  best  book  on  the  resources  of  China.” — Millard’s  Review. 
Devoted  to  geography,  resources,  economic  and  commercial  develop¬ 
ment.  25  bi-lingual  maps,  compiled  and  translated  from  latest  and  most 
authoritative  surveys  and  records  by  staff  of  Far  Eastern  Geographi¬ 
cal  Establishment. — North-China  Daily  News  and  Herald,  Shanghai. 

Giles,  Herbert  Allen. 

A  Chinese  biographical  dictionary  .  .  .  London,  Quaritch ; 
Shanghai,  Kelly  &  Walsh,  1898. 

Japan.  Imperial  government  railways. 

An  official  guide  to  Eastern  Asia,  trans-continental  connections 
between  Europe  and  Asia  .  .  .  v.  4.  China.  Tokyo,  1915. 
Excellent  maps,  illustrations  and  descriptions. 

Mayers,  William  Frederick. 

The  Chinese  reader’s  manual ;  a  handbook  of  biographical,  his¬ 
torical,  mythological,  and  general  literary  reference  .  .  .  Lon¬ 
don,  Probsthain,  1910. 

“Reprinted  from  the  edition  of  1874.” 

Williams,  Samuel  Wells. 

The  Middle  kingdom.  A  survey  of  the  geography,  government, 
literature,  social  life,  arts,  and  history  of  the  Chinese  empire 
and  its  inhabitants  .  .  .  Rev.  ed.  .  .  .New  York,  Scribner’s, 
1883  and  1907.  2  v.,  illus.,  maps. 


GEOGRAPHY 


Little,  Archibald  John. 

The  Far  East  .  .  .  Oxford,  Clarendon  Press,  1905.  Illus., 
maps.  (The  regions  of  the  world.) 

Parker,  Edward  Harper. 

China,  her  history,  diplomacy,  and  commerce,  from  the  earliest 
times  to  the  present  day  ...  2d  ed.  London,  Murray,  1917. 

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Richard,  Pcre  L. 

L.  Richard’s  comprehensive  geography  of  the  Chinese  Empire 
and  dependencies.  Translation  by  M.  Kennedy,  S.  J.  Shang¬ 
hai,  T’usewei  Press,  1908. 

Comprehensive  and  valuable.  Good  bibliographies. 

Suess,  Edward. 

The  face  of  the  earth  (Das  Antlitz  der  Erde)  .  .  .  Translated 
by  Hertha  B.  C.  Sollas  .  .  .  under  the  direction  of  W.  J.  Sollas 
.  .  .  Oxford,  Clarendon  Press,  1904-09.  4  v.,  illus.,  maps. 


NATURAL  HISTORY 

Carnegie  institution  of  Washington. 

Research  in  China  .  .  .  Washington,  D.  C.,  Carnegie  institu¬ 
tion  of  Washington,  1907-13.  3  v.  in  4,  illus.,  maps,  and  atlas. 

Scientific  results  of  the  Carnegie  expedition  to  China,  1903-04. 
Contents:  v.  1,  pt.  1.  Descriptive  topography  and  geology,  pt.  2.  Pe¬ 
trography  and  zoology,  by  Eliot  Blackwelder.  Syllabary  of  Chinese 
sounds,  by  Friedrich  Hirth. — v.  2.  Systematic  geology,  by  Bailey 
Willis. — v.  3.  The  Cambrian  faunas  of  China,  by  Charles  D.  Wal¬ 
cott.  A  report  on  Ordovician  fossils  collected  in  Eastern  Asia  in 
1903-04,  by  Stuart  Weller.  A  report  on  upper  Paleozoic  fossils  col¬ 
lected  in  China  in  1903-04,  by  George  H.  Girty. 

Very  valuable. 

Wilson,  Ernest  Henry. 

A  naturalist  in  western  China,  with  vasculum,  camera,  and 
gun ;  being  some  account  of  eleven  years’  travel,  exploration, 
and  observation  in  the  more  remote  parts  of  the  Flowery  king¬ 
dom  .  .  .  with  an  introduction  by  Charles  Sprague  Sargent 
.  .  .  London,  Methuen  [1913].  2  v.,  illus.,  maps. 


DESCRIPTION  AND  TRAVEL 

Bredon,  Juliet. 

Peking;  a  historical  and  intimate  description  of  its  chief  places 
of  interest  .  .  .  [2d  ed.,  rev.  and  enl.]  Shanghai,  Kelly  & 
Walsh,  1922.  Illus.,  maps. 


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Colquhoun,  Archibald  Ross. 

Amongst  the  Shans  .  .  .  with  upwards  of  fifty  whole-page 
illustrations,  and  an  historical  sketch  of  the  Shans  by  Holt  S. 
Hallett  .  .  .  Preceded  by  an  introduction  on  The  cradle  of  the 
Shan  race,  by  Terrien  de  Lacouperie  .  .  .  London,  Field  & 
Tuer;  New  York,  Scribner  &  Welford,  1885.  Illus.,  maps. 

Franck,  Harry  Alverson. 

Wandering  in  northern  China.  New  York,  Century,  1923. 
Illus.,  map. 

Hosie,  Sir  Alexander. 

Szechwan,  its  products,  industries,  and  resources.  Shanghai, 
Kelly  &  Walsh,  1922. 

Huntington,  Ellsworth. 

The  pulse  of  Asia,  a  journey  in  Central  Asia  illustrating  the 
geographic  basis  of  history  .  .  .  Boston  and  New  York, 

Houghton  Mifflin,  1907.  Jllus.,  maps. 

Ollone,  Henri  Marie  Gustave,  vicomte  d\ 

In  forbidden  China.  The  D’Ollone  mission  1906-09  ;  China- 
Tibet-Mongolia  .  .  .  translated  from  the  French  of  the  2d  ed., 
by  Bernard  Miall ;  .  .  .  Boston,  Small,  Maynard  [1912]. 
Illus.,  maps. 

Perry-Ayscough,  Henry  George  Charles,  and  Otter-Barry,  Robert 
Bruere. 

With  the  Russians  in  Mongolia  .  .  .  with  a  preface  by  the 
Right  Honourable  Sir  Claude  Macdonald  .  .  .  London,  New 
York,  Lane,  1914.  Illus.,  maps. 

Pumpelly,  Raphael. 

My  reminiscences  .  .  .  New  York,  Holt,  1918.  2  v.,  illus., 

maps. 

Richthofen,  Ferdinand  Paul  Wilhelm,  freiherr  von. 

Baron  Richthofen’s  letters,  1870-72.  2d  ed.  Shanghai, 
“North-China  Herald”  office,  1903. 

On  resources  of  northern  provinces  of  China. 

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Scidmore,  Eliza  Ruhamah. 

China  the  long-lived  Empire.  New  York,  Century,  1900. 

Stein,  Sir  Marc  Aurel. 

Serindia ;  detailed  report  of  explorations  in  Central  Asia  and 
westernmost  China  carried  out  and  described  under  the  orders 
of  H.  M.  Indian  government  .  .  .  Oxford,  Clarendon  Press, 
1921.  5  v.,  illus.,  maps,  facsims. 

Personal  narrative  and  results  of  explorations. 

Yule,  Sir  Henry,  editor  and  translator. 

Cathay  and  the  way  thither ;  being  a  collection  of  medieval 
notices  of  China  .  .  .New  ed.,  rev.  throughout  in  the  light  of 
recent  discoveries  by  Henri  Cordier  .  .  .  London,  printed  for 
the  Hakluyt  society,  1913-16.  4  v.,  illus.,  maps.  (Works 

issued  by  the  Hakluyt  society.  2d  ser.,  no.  33,  37,  38,  41.) 


HISTORY 


Allan,  C.  Wilfrid. 

The  makers  of  Cathay.  Shanghai,  Presbyterian  Mission  Press, 
1909.  Illus. 

Contents :  Confucius,  the  moral  reformer. — Mencius,  the  social  re¬ 
former. — Chin  Shih  Huang  Ti,  the  first  emperor. — Chu  Ko  Liang, 
strategist  and  statesman. — Fa  Shien  and  Shuan  Tsang,  the  Buddhist 
pilgrims. — Li  Shih  Min,  the  emperor  Tai  Tsung. — Li  Tai  Peh  and  Tu 
Fu,  China’s  greatest  poets. — Han  Yu,  the  prince  of  literature. — Wang 
An  Shih,  political  economist  and  national  reformer. — Chu  She,  scholar 
and  philosopher. — Kublai  Khan,  the  world’s  emperor. — Wen  Tien 
Shiang  and  Lu  Shiu  Fu,  the  patriotic  ministers. — Hung  Wu,  the 
beggar  king. — Wu  San  Kuei,  the  people’s  general. — Koxinga,  pirate 
and  patriot. — K’ang  She,  the  greatest  of  the  Manchus. — Chien  Lung, 
the  conqueror. — Tseng  Kuo  Fan,  the  imperialist  general. — Li  Hung 
Chang,  statesman  and  diplomat. 

Backhouse,  E.,  and  Bland,  John  Otway  Percy. 

Annals  &  memoirs  of  the  court  of  Peking  (from  the  16th  to 
the  20th  century)  .  .  .  Boston  and  New  York,  Houghton 
Mifflin,  1914.  Illus. 

Contents  :  The  Ming  dynasty. — The  Manchu  dynasty. 

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Cordier,  Henri. 

Histoire  generale  de  la  Chine  et  de  ses  relations  avec  les  pays 
etrangers  depuis  les  temps  les  plus  anciens  jusqu’a  la  chute  de 
la  dynastie  mandchoue  .  .  .  Paris,  P.  Geuthner,  1920.  4  v., 
illus. 

Contents:  I.  Depuis  les  temps  les  plus  anciens  jusqu’a  la  chute  de  la 
dynastie  T’ang  (907  apres  J.-C.). — II.  Depuis  les  cinq  dynasties 
(907)  jusqu’a  la  chute  des  Mongols  (1368). — III.  Depuis  l’avenement 
des  Ming  (1368)  jusqu’a  la  mort  de  Kia  K’ing  (1820). — IV.  Depuis 
1‘avenement  de  Tao  Kouang  (1821)  jusqu’a  l’epoque  actuelle. 

The  best  comprehensive  historical  survey  to  1912. 

Hirth,  Friedrich. 

The  ancient  history  of  China  to  the  end  of  the  Chou  dynasty 
.  .  .  New  York,  Columbia  University  Press,  1908.  Map. 

Latourette,  Kenneth  Scott. 

The  development  of  China  .  .  .  Rev.  ed.  Boston  and  New 
York,  Houghton  Mifflin,  1920.  Map. 

Admirable  summary  of  Chinese  history  and  culture. 

Li  Ung  Bing. 

Outlines  of  Chinese  history  .  .  .  edited  by  Professor  Joseph 
Whiteside  .  .  .  Shanghai,  Commercial  Press,  1914.  Illus., 
maps. 

A  college  textbook  illustrated. 

Macgowan,  John. 

A  history  of  China  from  the  earliest  days  down  to  the  present 
.  .  .  London,  Paul,  Trench,  Triibner,  1897.  2d  ed.,  Shanghai, 
American  Pres.  Mission  Press,  1906. 

Largely  based  on  translations  of  classic  histories. 

Oxenham,  Edward  Lavington. 

Historical  atlas  of  the  Chinese  empire.  From  the  earliest  times 
down  to  the  present  or  great  Ching  Dynasty,  giving  the  names 
of  the  chief  towns  and  the  metropolis  of  each  of  the  chief 
dynasties.  2d  ed.  London,  1898.  Maps. 

Parker,  Edward  Harper. 

Ancient  China  simplified  .  .  .  London,  Chapman  &  Hall,  1908. 
Illus.,  maps,  facsims. 


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Parker,  Edward  Harper. 

A  thousand  years  of  the  Tartars  .  .  .  London,  Low,  Marston 
[Shanghai,  printed  by  Kelly  &  Walsh]  ;  1895. 

Polo,  Marco. 

The  book  of  Ser  Marco  Polo,  the  Venetian,  concerning  the 
kingdoms  and  marvels  of  the  East  .  .  .  Translated  and  edited, 
with  notes,  by  Colonel  Sir  Henry  Yule  ...  3d  ed.,  revised 
throughout  in  the  light  of  recent  discoveries  by  Henri  Cordier 
.  .  .  With  a  memoir  of  Henry  Yule  by  his  daughter,  Amy 
Prances  Yule  .  .  .  London,  Murray,  1903.  2  v.,  illus.,  maps, 

facsims. 

Pott,  Lrancis  Lister  Hawks. 

A  sketch  of  Chinese  history  .  .  .  Shanghai,  Kelly  &  Walsh, 
1903.  Maps. 

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Smith,  Arthur  Henderson. 

China  in  convulsion  .  .  .  New  York,  Chicago,  Revell,  1901.  2 
v.,  illus.,  maps. 

Authoritative  account  of  Boxer  turmoil  by  a  witness. 


SOCIAL  LIFE  AND  CUSTOMS 

Bard,  Emile. 

Chinese  life  in  town  and  country;  adapted  from  the  French 
.  .  .  by  H.  Twitched  .  .  .  New  York  and  London,  Putnam’s, 
1905.  Illus.  (Our  Asiatic  neighbors.) 

Brief  but  interesting  and  unbiased. 

Burton,  Margaret  Ernestine. 

The  education  of  women  in  China  ...  New  York,  Chicago, 
Revell  [1911].  Illus. 

Study  of  home  and  school  life  of  Chinese  women  and  girls  before 
the  Revolution. 

Der  Ling,  Princess.  “Mrs.  Thaddeus  C.  White.” 

Two  years  in  the  forbidden  city  .  .  .  New  York,  Moffat,  Yard, 
1912.  Illus. 

Intimate  account  of  palace  life  at  first  hand,  after  the  Boxer  up¬ 
rising,  by  the  first  lady  in  waiting  to  the  Empress  Dowager. 

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Dore,  Henri. 

Researches  into  Chinese  superstitions  .  .  .  Translated  from 
the  French  with  notes,  historical  and  explanatory,  by  M.  Ken¬ 
nedy  .  .  .  Shanghai,  T’usewei  Printing  Press,  1915-23.  7  v., 

illus.,  facsims. 

Valuable  reference  book,  copiously  illustrated. 

Edmunds,  Charles  Keyser. 

Modern  education  in  China  .  .  .  Washington,  Govt.  Printing 
Office,  1919.  Illus.  (U.  S.  Bureau  of  Education.  Bulletin, 
1919,  no.  44.) 

Gamble,  Sidney  David.  * 

Peking,  a  social  survey  conducted  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Princeton  University  center  in  China  and  the  Peking  Young 
Men’s  Christian  Association  by  Sidney  D.  Gamble  .  .  .  assisted 
by  John  Stewart  Burgess  .  .  .  Foreword  by  G.  Sherwood  Eddy 
and  Robert  A.  Woods.  New  York,  Doran  [1921].  Illus. 

Headland,  Isaac  Taylor. 

Home  life  in  China  .  .  .  New  York,  Macmillan,  1914.  Illus. 
Kuo,  Ping  Wen. 

The  Chinese  system  of  public  education  ...  New  York  City, 
Teachers  College,  Columbia  University,  1915.  (Teachers  Col¬ 
lege,  Columbia  University.  Contributions  to  education,  no.  64.) 
History  from  2357  B.  C.  to  1911  A.  D. 

Lewis,  Ida  Belle. 

The  education  of  girls  in  China  .  .  .  New  York  City,  Teachers 
College,  Columbia  University,  1919.  Map.  (Teachers  College, 
Columbia  University.  Contributions  to  education,  no.  104.) 

Liang,  Y.  K.,  and  Tao,  L.  K. 

Village  and  town  life  in  China.  New  York,  Macmillan;  Lon¬ 
don,  Allen  &  Unwin  [1915].  (London  School  of  economics 
and  political  science  (University  of  London).  Series  of  studies 
in  economics  and  political  science  .  .  .  no.  4  of  the  Monographs 
on  Sociology.) 


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Macgowan,  John. 

Men  and  manners  of  modern  China  .  .  .  London,  Unwin,  1912. 
Illus. 

Ross,  Edward  Alsworth. 

The  changing  Chinese ;  the  conflict  of  Oriental  and  western 
cultures  in  China  .  .  .New  York,  Century,  1911.  Illus. 

Smith,  Arthur  Henderson. 

Chinese  characteristics  .  .  .  Enl.  and  rev.  ed.  .  .  .New  York, 
Chicago,  Revell  [1900].  Illus. 

Smith,  Arthur  Henderson. 

Village  life  in  China;  a  study  in  sociology  .  .  .  New  York, 
Chicago,  Revell  [1899].  Illus. 

Tsu,  Yu  Yue,  i.e.  Andrew  Yu  Yue. 

The  spirit  of  Chinese  philanthropy ;  a  study  in  mutual  aid  .  .  . 
New  York,  Columbia  University  Press,  1912.  (Studies  in 
history,  economics,  and  public  law,  edited  by  the  Faculty  of 
political  science  of  Columbia  University,  v.  50,  no.  1,  whole  no. 
125.) 

Contents:  1.  Chinese  philanthropy  in  thought  and  practice. — 2.  Popu¬ 
lation  and  social  well-being. — 3.  Charity. — 4.  Mutual  benefit. — 5. 
Civic  betterment. — 6.  Rise  of  natural  self-consciousness  and  soli¬ 
darity. 

Walshe,  W.  Gilbert. 

“Ways  that  are  dark.”  Shanghai,  Kelley  &  Walsh,  1906. 

Some  chapters  on  Chinese  etiquette  and  social  procedure.  Unfortu¬ 
nate  title,  but  excellent  book. 

Werner,  Edward  Theodore  Chalmers. 

China  of  the  Chinese  .  .  .  London,  New  York,  Pitman,  1919. 
Illus.,  map.  (Countries  and  peoples  series.) 

A  small  book  written  “to  give  a  general  idea  of  the  morphological 
and  physiological  development”  of  Chinese  society. 

Williams,  Edward  Thomas. 

China,  yesterday  and  today  .  .  .  New  York,  Crowell,  1923. 

Chapters  on  the  mores  and  history  of  China  based  on  thorough  knowl¬ 
edge  of  the  country  and  language. 

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ECONOMIC  CONDITIONS 


Collins,  William  F. 

Mineral  enterprise  in  China  .  .  .  London,  Heinemann  [1918]. 
Illus.,  maps. 

High,  Stanley  Hoflund. 

China’s  place  in  the  sun  .  .  .New  York,  Macmillan,  1922. 
Illus. 

Hsu,  Mongton  Chih. 

Railway  problems  in  China  .  .  .  New  York,  Columbia  Univer¬ 
sity  Press,  1915.  Map.  (Studies  in  history,  economics,  and 
public  law,  ed.  by  the  Faculty  of  political  science  of  Columbia 
University,  v.  66,  no.  2,  whole  no,  159.) 

Jernigan,  Thomas  R. 

China  in  law  and  commerce  .  .  .  New  York,  London,  Mac¬ 
millan,  1905. 

Political  and  commercial  life,  resources,  business  customs,  weights 
and  measures. 

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King,  Franklin  Hiram. 

Farmers  of  forty  centuries;  or,  Permanent  agriculture  in  China, 
Korea  and  Japan  .  .  .  Madison,  Wis.,  Mrs.  F.  H.  King,  1911. 
Illus. 

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Morse,  Hosea  Ballou. 

The  gilds  of  China,  with  an  account  of  the  gild  merchant  or 
co-hong  of  Canton  .  .  .  London,  New  York,  Longmans, 

Green,  1909.  Illus. 

Morse,  Hosea  Ballou. 

The  trade  and  administration  of  China  ...  3d  rev.  ed.  Lon¬ 
don,  New  York,  Longmans,  Green,  1921.  Illus.,  maps,  facsim. 

Wagel,  Srinivas  R. 

Finance  in  China  .  .  .  Shanghai,  North-China  Daily  News  and 
Herald,  1914. 


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Wagel,  Srinivas  R. 

Chinese  currency  and  banking  .  .  .  Shanghai,  North-China 
Daily  News  and  Herald,  1915. 

A  sequel  to  his  Finance  in  China. 


POLITICS  AND  INTERNATIONAL 

RELATIONS 

Baddeley,  John  F. 

Russia,  Mongolia,  China,  being  some  record  of  the  relations 
between  them  from  the  beginning  of  the  XVI Ith  century  to 
the  death  of  the  Tsar  Alexei  Mikhailovich,  A.  D.  1602-1676, 
rendered  mainly  in  the  form  of  narratives  dictated  or  written 
by  the  envoys  sent  by  the  Russian  tsars,  or  their  voevodas  in  Si¬ 
beria  to  the  Kalmuk  and  Mongol  khans  and  princes ;  and  to  the 
emperors  of  China;  .  .  .  London,  Macmillan,  1919.  2  v.,  illus., 
maps,  facsims.,  folio. 

Cheng,  Sih-Gung. 

Modern  China,  a  political  study  .  .  .  Oxford,  Clarendon  Press, 
1919. 

Coolidge,  Mrs.  Mary  Elizabeth  Burroughs  (Roberts)  Smith. 
Chinese  immigration  .  .  .  New  York,  Holt,  1909.  Illus. 

(American  public  problems,  ed.  by  Ralph  Curtis  Ringwalt.) 

Good  appendices  and  bibliographies.  Confined  to  the  American  prob¬ 
lem  ;  exhaustive  up  to  its  date. 

Dennett,  Tyler. 

Americans  in  eastern  Asia ;  a  critical  study  of  the  policy  of  the 
United  States  with  reference  to  China,  Japan,  and  Korea  in 
the  19th  century  .  .  .  New  York,  Macmillan,  1922.  Illus., 
maps. 

A  careful  and  impartial  study  of  American  policy  in  19th  century. 

Douglas,  Sir  Robert  Kennaway. 

Europe  and  the  Far  East,  1506-1912  .  .  .  rev.  and  cor.  with  an 
additional  chapter  (1904-12),  by  Joseph  H.  Longford  .  .  . 
Cambridge,  University  Press,  1913.  Maps.  (Cambridge  his¬ 
torical  series.  Ed.  by  G.  W.  Prothero  .  .  .  ) 

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Foster,  John  Watson. 

American  diplomacy  in  the  Orient  .  .  .  Boston  and  New  York, 
Houghton  Mifflin,  1903. 

Koo,  Vi  Kyuin  Wellington. 

The  status  of  aliens  in  China  .  .  .  New  York,  Columbia  Uni¬ 
versity,  1912.  (Studies  in  history,  economics,  and  public  law, 
ed.  by  the  Faculty  of  political  science  of  Columbia  University, 
v.  50,  no.  2,  whole  no.  126.) 

Michie,  Alexander. 

The  Englishman  in  China  during  the  Victorian  era,  as  illus¬ 
trated  in  the  career  of  Sir  Rutherford  Alcock  .  .  .  Edinburgh, 
Blackwood,  1900.  2  v.,  illus.,  maps. 

Morse,  Hosea  Ballou. 

The  international  relations  of  the  Chinese  empire  .  .  .  London, 
New  York,  Longmans,  Green,  1910-18.  3  v.,  illus.,  maps. 

Contents:  [I].  The  period  of  conflict,  1834-1860.  II.  The  period  of 
submission,  1861-1893.  III.  The  period  of  subjection,  1894-1911. 
The  standard  and  authoritative  work  on  the  subject. 

Parker,  Edward  Harper. 

China :  her  history,  diplomacy  and  commerce,  from  the  earliest 
times  to  the  present  day  ...  2d  ed.  New  York,  Dutton,  1917. 
Illus.,  maps. 

Reinsch,  Paul  Samuel. 

Intellectual  and  political  currents  in  the  Far  East  .  .  .  Boston 
and  New  York,  Houghton  Mifflin,  1911. 

Russell,  Hon.  Bertrand  Arthur  William. 

The  problem  of  China  .  .  .New  York,  Century,  1922. 

Brilliant  and  specious. 

Tyau,  Minchien  Tuk  Zung. 

The  legal  obligations  arising  out  of  treaty  relations  between 
China  and  other  states  .  .  .  with  prefaces  by  Sir  John  Mac- 
donnell  .  .  .  and  Hon.  Wu  Ting-Fang  .  .  .  Shanghai,  Com¬ 
mercial  Press;  foreign  agents,  New  York,  Stechert,  1917. 


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Vinacke,  Harold  Monk. 

Modern  constitutional  development  in  China  .  .  .  Princeton, 
Princeton  University  Press,  1920. 

Willoughby,  Westel  Woodbury. 

Constitutional  government  in  China,  present  conditions  and 
prospects  .  .  .  Washington,  The  Endowment,  1922.  (Pam¬ 
phlet  series  of  the  Carnegie  endowment  for  international  peace. 
Division  of  international  law,  no.  47.) 

Yen,  Hawkling  Lugine. 

A  survey  of  constitutional  development  in  China  .  .  .New 
York,  Columbia  University  Press,  1911.  (Studies  in  history, 
economics,  and  public  law,  edited  by  the  Faculty  of  political 
science  of  Columbia  University,  v.  40,  no.  1,  whole  no.  104) 
Deals  chiefly  with  Chinese  political  philosophy. 


LAW 

Alabaster,  Ernest. 

Notes  and  commentaries  on  Chinese  criminal  law.  London, 
Luzac,  1899. 

China.  Laws,  statutes,  etc. 

The  provisional  criminal  code  of  the  Republic  of  China.  Trans¬ 
lated  by  the  Law  Codification  Commission.  Peking,  Ministry 
of  justice,  1919. 

Jamieson,  G. 

Chinese  family  and  commercial  law.  Shanghai,  Kelly  & 
Walsh,  1921. 


FINE  ARTS 

Bushell,  Stephen  Wootton. 

Chinese  art  ...  2d  ed.,  rev.  London,  printed  for  H.  M.  Sta¬ 
tionery  off.  by  Eyre  and  Spottiswoode,  1909.  2  v.,  illus.  Re¬ 

print  1921. 

Comprehensive.  Useful  for  general  readers. 

15 


Fenollosa,  Ernest  Francisco. 

Epochs  of  Chinese  &  Japanese  art,  an  outline  history  of  East 
Asiatic  design.  .  .  .  London,  Heinemann,  1912.  2  v.,  illus. 
Systematic  history  of  art  of  Eastern  Asia. 

Hobson,  Robert  Lockhart. 

Chinese  pottery  and  porcelain :  an  account  of  the  potter’s  art  in 
China  from  primitive  times  to  the  present  day  .  .  .  London, 
New  York,  Cassell,  1915.  2  v.,  illus. 

Valuable  to  students  and  collectors. 

Waley,  Arthur. 

An  introduction  to  the  study  of  Chinese  painting.  London, 
Benn,  1923.  Illus. 


LITERATURE 

Ayscough,  Mrs.  Florance,  translator. 

Fir-flower  tablets ;  poems  translated  from  the  Chinese  .  .  . 
English  versions  by  Amy  Lowell  .  .  .  Boston  and  New  York, 
Houghton  Mifflin,  1921.  Illus. 

Budd,  Charles,  translator. 

Chinese  poems.  London,  New  York,  Froude,  1912. 

Confucius. 

The  analects  of  Confucius  by  William  Edward  Soothill  .  .  . 
Yokohama,  printed  by  the  Fukuin  Printing  Co.,  1910.  Map. 
Best  translation  and  notes  on  Lun-Yu. 

Cranmer-Byng,  Launcelot  Alfred,  compiler. 

A  lute  of  jade;  being  selections  from  the  classical  poets  of 
China,  rendered  with  an  introduction  .  .  .  London,  Murray, 
1911.  (The  wisdom  of  the  East  series,  ed.  by  L.  Cranmer- 
Byng,  Dr.  S.  A.  Kapadia.) 

Giles,  Herbert  Allen. 

A  history  of  Chinese  literature  .  .  .  New  York.  Appleton,  1901. 
(Short  histories  of  the  literatures  of  the  world.) 

16 


Legge,  James. 

The  Chinese  classics :  with  a  translation,  critical  and  exegetical 
notes,  prolegomena  and  copious  indexes  ...  2d  ed.,  rev.  .  .  . 
Oxford,  Clarendon  Press,  1893-95.  5  v.  in  8,  maps. 

As  originally  projected  the  collection  was  “to  embrace  all  the  books  in 
‘The  thirteen  king.’  ”  The  6th  and  7th  and  the  supplementary  volumes 
were  never  published.  An  English  translation  of  the  Yih  king  and 
the  Li  ki  appeared  respectively  as  v.  16  (1882)  and  v.  27-28  (1885) 
of  the  series  “Sacred  books  of  the  East.”  A  translation  of  the  Hsiao 
king  appeared  in  v.  3  (1879)  of  the  same  series. 

Li  Po. 

The  works  of  Li-Po  the  Chinese  poet  done  into  English  verse 
by  Shigeyoshi  Obata.  New  York,  Dutton,  1922. 

Martin,  William  Alexander  Parsons. 

The  lore  of  Cathay ;  or,  The  intellect  of  China  .  .  .  with  an  in¬ 
troductory  note  by  James  S.  Dennis  .  .  .  New  York,  Chicago, 
Revell  [1912].  Illus. 

His  “Hanlin  Papers”  revised.  Deals  with  civilization,  religion,  litera¬ 
ture,  and  education. 

Pu  Liu-sien. 

Strange  stories  ♦from  a  Chinese  studio.  [By  Pu  Liu-sien.] 
Translated  and  annotated  by  Herbert  A.  Giles.  London,  Thos. 
De  la  Rue,  1880.  2  v. 

3d  ed.  (reprint  in  1  v.),  1920. 

Translation  of  the  Lao  Chai,  wonder  tales. 

Smith,  Arthur  Henderson. 

Proverbs  and  common  sayings  from  the  Chinese,  together  with 
much  related  and  unrelated  matter,  interspersed  with  observa¬ 
tions  on  Chinese  things-in-general.  New  and  rev.  ed.  .  .  . 
Shanghai,  American  Presbyterian  Mission  Press,  1914. 

Cf.  Wm.  Scarborough,  “A  collection  of  Chinese  proverbs,”  Shanghai, 
1875. 

Waley,  Arthur,  translator. 

A  hundred  and  seventy  Chinese  poems  .  .  .New  York,  Knopf 
1919. 

Another  group,  “More  translations,”  was  issued  in  the  same  year. 

’  17 


Wylie,  Alexander. 

Notes  on  Chinese  literature:  with  introductory  remarks  on  the 
progressive  advancement  of  the  art;  and  a  list  of  translations 
from  the  Chinese  into  various  European  languages  .  .  .  New 
ed.  Shanghai,  American  Presbyterian  Mission  Press,  1901. 
Reprinted  London,  1923. 

RELIGION,  PHILOSOPHY  AND  CULTUS 

Broomhall,  Marshall. 

Islam  in  China,  a  neglected  problem.  .  .  .  London,  Morgan  & 
Scott,  1910.  Illus.,  maps,  facsims. 

Bruce,  Joseph  Percy. 

Chu  Hsi  and  his  masters.  An  introduction  to  Chu  Hsi  and  the 
Sung  school  of  Chinese  philosophy  .  .  .  London,  Probsthain, 
1923. 

Chu  Hsi. 

The  philosophy  of  human  nature  .  .  .  translated  from  the 
Chinese,  with  notes,  by  J.  Percy  Bruce  .  .  .  London,  Probsthain, 
1922.  (Probsthain’s  Oriental  series,  v.  10.) 

“The  work  here  translated  forms  a  part  of  the  imperial  edition  of 
Chu  Hsi’s  complete  works  .  .  .  published  in  .  .  .  1713.” 

Chuang  Tzu. 

Musings  of  a  Chinese  mystic,  selections  from  the  philosophy  of 
Chuang  Tzu;  with  an  introduction  by  Lionel  Giles  .  .  .  London, 
Murray,  1911.  (The  wisdom  of  the  East  series,  ed.  by  L. 
Cranmer-Byng,  Dr.  S.  A.  Kapadia.) 

Clennell,  Walter  James. 

The  historical  development  of  religion  in  China  .  .  .  London, 
Unwin  [1917]. 

Confucius. 

The  ethics  of  Confucius;  the  sayings  of  the  master  and  his 
disciples  upon  the  conduct  of  “the  superior  man,”  arranged 
according  to  the  plan  of  Confucius,  with  running  commentary 

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by  Miles  Menander  Dawson  .  .  .  with  a  foreword  by  Wu  Ting 
Fang  .  .  .  prepared  under  the  auspices  of  the  American  insti¬ 
tute  for  scientific  research.  New  York  and  London,  Putnam’s, 
1915. 

Edkins,  Joseph. 

Chinese  Buddhism :  a  volume  of  sketches,  historical,  descrip¬ 
tive,  and  critical  ...  2d  ed.,  rev.  London,  Paul,  Trench, 
Trubner,  1893.  (Trubner’s  Oriental  series.) 

Giles,  Herbert  Allen. 

Confucianism  and  its  rivals ;  lectures  delivered  in  the  university 
hall  of  Dr.  William’s  library,  London,  Oct. -Dec.  1914  .  .  . 
New  York,  Scribner’s,  1915.  Illus.  (The  Hibbert  lectures,  2d 
ser.) 

Giles,  Herbert  Allen,  translator. 

Musings  of  a  Chinese  mystic  [Chuang-thsze] .  See  Chuang 
1  zu. 

Groot,  Jan  Jakob  Maria  de. 

The  religion  of  the  Chinese  .  .  .  New  York,  Macmillan,  1910. 
(Hartford-Lamson  lectures  on  the  religions  of  the  world.) 
Reviews  primitive  element  of  all  Chinese  religions  except  Buddhism. 

Hfian  Tsang  (or  Yuan  Chwang). 

Si-Yu-Ki.  Buddhist  records  of  the  western  world.  From  the 
Chinese  of  Hiuen  Tsiang  (A.  D.  629).  2  v.  London,  Paul, 

1906. 

First  issued  1884.  Translated  by  Samuel  Beal. 

Johnston,  Reginald  Fleming. 

Buddhist  China  .  .  .  New  York,  Dutton,  1913.  Illus.,  map. 
Lao-Tsze. 

Lao-tze’s  Tao-teh-King,  Chinese-English.  With  introduction, 
transliteration  and  notes  by  Dr.  Paul  Cams.  Chicago,  Open 
Court  Publishing  Co.,  1898. 

Parker,  Edward  Harper. 

China  and  religion.  London,  Murray,  1905.  Illus. 

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Soothill,  William  Edward. 

The  three  religions  of  China;  lectures  delivered  at  Oxford  .  .  . 
London,  New  York,  Hodder  &  Stoughton  [1913]. 

One  of  the  best  summaries. 

Suzuki,  Daisetz  Teitaro. 

A  brief  history  of  Chinese  philosophy  .  .  .  London,  Probsthain, 
1914.  (Probsthain’s  Oriental  series,  v.  7.) 

Originally  published  in  the  Monist,  1907-08. 

Wang  Yang-ming. 

The  philosophy  of  Wang  Yang-ming,  translated  from  the 
Chinese  by  Lrederick  Goodrich  Henke  .  .  .  London,  Chicago, 
Open  Court  Publishing  Co.,  1916.  Illus. 

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